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Imperial Russian 1914 Sofia Fedorova Ballerina Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Book Rare
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"Ballet art and S.V. Fedorova the 2nd. An experience. With ten portraits.
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Author -
S. Grigorov
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Soft cover
reduced format
76 pages
Publishing house 'Trud', Moscow 1914.
Condition - minor tear of the spine cover.
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Sofia Vasylievna Fedorova
(1879 – 1963, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France) was a Russian ballerina.She graduated from the Bolshoi School in 1899 and joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where she was most admired as a character ballerina.She danced with the Diaghilev Ballet from its beginning in 1909, dancing major roles throughout the entire history of the Diaghilev Ballet. Fedorova continued to dance with the Bolshoi until 1917, dancing also with Diaghilev's and Anna Pavlova's companies. Her husband was Pyotr Olenin, a Russian opera singer and opera director. After his death in 1922 she immediately went into exile in France, where she continued to dance ballet. Her last performance was with the Diaghilev Ballet in 1928.